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《英語專業學業測試（5級）》嚴格按照《英語專業教學大綱》的要求，設計了具有針對性的專項練習。後來在2005年又根據新版大綱的要求，修訂改編了本習題集；但是本習題集依然保持原來的主旨：為全國高等院校英語專業三、四年級學生或者具有相當水平的學員提供一個平臺，檢測他們自己的英語水平，提高英語的實踐能力和應試能力。《英語專業學業測試（5級）》是根據編者在復旦大學外文學院多年來講授英語專業高年級各類課程的經驗和編寫相關書籍的經驗編寫而成，書中題型多樣，有聽力理解、校對改錯、閱讀理解、翻譯與寫作，以及一項有關句型轉換的練習。書中附有兩套模擬試卷，其測試的水平相當於英語專業五級或者英語專業三、四年級的程度。

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PART ONE PRACTICE EXERCISES
Ⅰ LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Section A Talks
Section B Conversations
Section C News Broadcast
Section D Note-taking & Gap-filling
Ⅱ PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION
Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION
Section A Close Reading
Section B Fast Reading
Ⅳ SENTENCE RECASTING
Ⅴ TRANSLATION
Section A Chinese to English
Section B English to Chinese
Ⅵ WRITING

PART TWO SAMPLE TESTS
SAMPLE TEST 1
SAMPLE TEST 2

APPENDICES
Ⅰ KEY TO PRACTICE EXERCISES AND SAMPLE TESTS
Ⅱ TRANSCRIPTS

The novel cuts back and forth， from the small Pennsylvania college town where Martin and his wife， Lauren， work as professors to England where Elizabeth's illness takes a turn for the worse， alternating between a Cheeversque examination of Martin's daily， domestic life and Elizabeth's confrontation with her illness. Martin becomes more and more distraught by his
sister's situation while Elizabeth does her best to come to terms with what her body and mind are going through：
"You keep trying， is what you do. You listen to the numbers when they're good， and ignore them when they're bad ... You lie to yourself. You tell yourself the truth. You will wake unrested and hoping to discover that it's all been a dream， just a mistake， just a nightmare. The sleep around the dream is as shallow as the bed you are in， and you wake almost disappointed to find that you are still alive and that you haven't arrived at some new， daring， dazzling， endless world. "
Such probing passages， and there are several， distinguish Leebron as a novelist of great power and emotion. He's able to inhabit the consciousness of the sufferer and the person who must helplessly watch. As previously mentioned， there are echoes of Cheever in In the Middle of All This， but also Richard Yates， John Updike-those anatomists of American middle-class life who， like Leebron， sense a sadness lurking behind almost everything.
Little more than halfway through， however， the novel unfortunately stalls somewhat. A series of mysterious disappearances occur - first Richard， then both Richard and Elizabeth- and Martin starts racking up frequent-flyer miles. He arrives in England， he returns home， then he's back in England drunkenly navigating the streets of London in search of a pub. All this transatlantic crisscrossing slows down the narrative and disrupts the pacing.
Leebron also layers on the levels of escalating turmoil a bit too thick at times， as if testing his characters to see how much drama they can endure. Besides the omnipresent health crises， something always seems to be breaking down at Martin and Lauren's newly purchased house. Meanwhile， over at the college， a colleague leaves his wife and one of Martin's students commits suicide. This steady stream of unrest is， of course， reflected in the rather uninspired title "Life in the middle of all this? Life was the middle of all this"， which Leebron references not once but twice.
Although the decision to have a major character like Elizabeth remain AWOL for the last
100 pages is questionable， In the Middle of All This nevertheless retains its impact as a poignant work about the fragility of life and the certainty of death - a-terrible cliche， perhaps， but not when in the hands of a writer like Leebron.
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